ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22459, 21 September 1944, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

TONIGHT’S PROGRAMMES THEATRE ROYAL The "Dad and Dave” films are always popular. "Dad and Dave Come to Town” tells how the Rudds inherit a women’s fashionable salon, and the fun may be imagined when Dad and Dave attempt to run the business. As their troubles increase the audience is more and more amused. Bert Bailey is again Dad and Fred MacDonald is Dave. “Corregidor,” a thrilling story of the war, will be screened tomorrow. CIVIC THEATRE “Stage Door Canteen,” besides dealing with several delightful romances, introduces 48 stars of stage and screen. It shows what is being done by the New York Stage Door Canteen to entertain men and women of the services. “Captains of the Clouds,” featuring James Cagney, will head the new programme tomorrow. Brenda Marshall has the chief feminine role. STATE THEATRE “The Moon and Sixpence,” the screen comedy provide excellent entertainment. “The Moon and Sixpence.” the screen version of Somerset Maugham’s widelyread book, is a romantic drama with plenty of action. George Sanders and Herbert Marshall head the cast, which also . includes Doris Dudley. Albert Basserman, Eleana Verongo and Eric Blore. “Fall In” is a very funny comedy with an Army , background, with William Tracey and Joe Sawyer heading the cast. REGENT THEATRE “Reveille with Beverly” -is a sparkling romantic comedy. The cast is headed by | Frank Sinatra, a radio vocalist who has won tremendous popularity with American women. Ann Miller, the charming dancing star, plays opposite him. “What a Woman.” featuring popular Rosalind Russell and Brian Aheme, will head the now programme tomorrow. ROXY THEATRE j “The Moon Got in My Eyes,” “Smarty” and “It’s the Natural Thing to Do” are : among the songs introduced into "Double |or Nothing,” a fast-moving comedy of i 1 four people who try to double 5000 dol- j j lars in thirty days. Bing Crosby and | Mary Carlisle have the romantic leads | and Andy Devine and Martha Raye help !in the funmaking. “Pittsburg” is an exj citing drama, with Randolph Scott and I John Wayne heading the cast. “THEY CAME TO A CITY” On Wednesday and Thursday, September 27th and 28th, the Hamilton People's Theatre will present in the State Theatre, Hamilton, a new play by that great English writer, J. B. Priestley, “They Came to a City.” The play opened in London last year and is still running; it has just been filmed at one of the largest English studios with John Clements and Googie Withers in the leading roles of Joe Dinmore and Alice Foster. In Hamilton these roles will be taken by Frederick Johnson, who has had several years’ professional stage experience iri New Zealand and overseas and is now stationed with the R.N.Z.A.F. in Hamilton, and Edna Hayward, who is well-known to Hamilton audiences from previous People’s Theatre productions.